Satellite-Based Vehicle Flow Data to Assess Local Economic Activities
Go, Eugenia:Kentaro Nakajima:Yasuyuki Sawada:Kiyoshi Taniguchi
F-1209 CIRJE Discussion Paper Series (2023/01/01)
Spatially and seasonally granular measures of local economic activities are increasingly required in a variety of economic analyses. We propose using novel vehicle density data obtained from daytime satellite images to quantify the local economic activity involving human and goods traffic flows. Validation exercises show that vehicle …